All you need to poison an LLM is 13 words.

Link: It Is Trivially Easy to Use Reddit to Manipulate AI Search, Research Suggests, by Jason Koebler at 404 MediaAll good fun:“A tiny snippet of user-generated text as short as 13 words long is often enough to manipulate the AI agents that power tools like ChatGPT and Google’s AI search, new research shows. The study suggests that it is trivially easy for brands to inject promotional content on sites like Reddit, Quora, and Wikipedia with the end goal of poisoning or manipulating the output of AI tools.”So not only do we need to worry about AI-generated slop polluting our social spaces, we also have to worry about people who want to influence the output of the AI-generated slop polluting them, too. There’s a whole industry of companies trying to improve their clients’ coverage in AI results, just as there were for search engine results. And all of them will be spamming the crap out of our public communities and collaborative websites.As 404 Media points out, this poses a real…